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European Peace and Security Policy
  • Language: en

European Peace and Security Policy

After the attacks of 9/11 terrorism and other forms of transnational risks of violence dominated official security policy. Researchers at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg investigated the consequences of this change for security governance in a multi-annual research program. Case studies show that transnational security policies changed, but that national governments remained dominant. In other words, the transnationalisation of threat perceptions only led to a limited internationalisaton of security policies. The volume presents results of the research program. It combines conceptual work on security governance with empirical research, for instance on counterterrorism, changing perceptions of security in international organizations, such as the European Union and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.

European Conflicts and International Institutions
  • Language: en

European Conflicts and International Institutions

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1998
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Where the Evidence Leads
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 449

Where the Evidence Leads

"This book develops an "empirical realist" theory to enable the United States to respond effectively to rising security threats and to seize new opportunities for global governance more successfully than have past policies. A synthesis of peace research and security studies shows that a global grand strategy for human security, with U.S. national security folded into it, is likely to produce more security for the United States than a grand strategy for national security pursued as an end in itself. More security advantages are likely to result from maximizing the "causes" or correlates of peace than from maximizing U.S. military power. Peace reigns when these correlates are present: all nati...

Peace Research in Western Europe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 58

Peace Research in Western Europe

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1989
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Studying ‘Effectiveness’ in International Relations
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 287

Studying ‘Effectiveness’ in International Relations

The question of how effective political tools actually are is among the most hotly debated in contemporary IR theory. There is no unanimity how to even measure the effectiveness and impact different political measures produce. This book comprehensively introduces social science students and scholars to the various fields of effectiveness and impact research in the study of international relations.

Confidence- and Security-building Measures in the New Europe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 244

Confidence- and Security-building Measures in the New Europe

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Justification of Responsibility in the UN Security Council
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 248

The Justification of Responsibility in the UN Security Council

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-09-13
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The UN Security Council has been given the primary responsibility for maintaining international peace and security. The precise meaning of this responsibility, however, is contested. This lack of clarity is frequently criticised as a source of incoherent and selective decision-making, undermining the legitimacy of the Security Council. In case studies of the Security Council’s controversies on Iraq and Syria, this book instead reveals contestation and competing interpretations of responsibility as crucial conditions for the constitution and negotiation of normative order. The case studies also underline the importance of public Security Council meetings as dynamic sites for coping with a p...

Policies for Common Security
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 274

Policies for Common Security

SCOTT (Copy 1): From the John Holmes Library Collection.

Arms Control in the 21st Century
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 248

Arms Control in the 21st Century

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-05-02
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This volume evaluates the impact of coercive arms control efforts to curb the spread of weapons of mass destruction in the twenty-first century. A new paradigm in arms control is gradually replacing the idea that mutually agreed restrictions on armaments can improve international security. Thus, Hedley Bull’s classic definition of arms control as the "cooperation between antagonistic pairs of states in military affairs" needs to be amended by a new notion of coercive arms control as the set of non-cooperative and non-reciprocal measures to restrict the weapons or military capabilities of certain states. This volume addresses the topic of how this ongoing paradigmatic shift will affect the ...

The Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 290

The Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe

This work examines the CFE Treaty as a factor in Russia’s foreign and security policy. Moscow showed amazing persistence in their relationship with the "cornerstone of European security." Their approach to the treaty was a genuine attempt to shape the security environment in Europe and the former USSR. The treaty also enabled the dismantling of large conventional forces as they returned from Eastern Europe and transitioned into the armies of the newly independent states of the former USSR. The CFE Treaty, though, proved ineffective at constraining the enlargement of NATO. Simultaneously, Moscow’s foreign and security policy evolved from one that focused on the domestic development of the...